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<pre>public interface <span class="strong">MultivariateFunction</span></pre>
<div class="block">An interface representing a multivariate real function.</div>
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<td class="colLast"><code><strong><a href="../../../../../org/apache/commons/math3/analysis/MultivariateFunction.html#value(double[])">value</a></strong>(double[]&nbsp;point)</code>
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